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European Colonization and Imperialism from 1400-2000

European Colonization and Imperialism from 1400-2000. Christian Albertini AP Euro 2 nd Period. 1400-1600. 1402: The Spanish empire begins with the invasion of the Canary Islands 1415: The Portuguese empire begins with the capture of Ceuta (Morocco) 1419: The Portuguese discover Madeira

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European Colonization and Imperialism from 1400-2000

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  1. European Colonization and Imperialism from 1400-2000 Christian Albertini AP Euro 2nd Period

  2. 1400-1600 • 1402: The Spanish empire begins with the invasion of the Canary Islands • 1415: The Portuguese empire begins with the capture of Ceuta (Morocco) • 1419: The Portuguese discover Madeira • 1427: The Portuguese discover Azores • 1441: The first consignment of slaves is brought to Lisbon (Portugal) • 1452: Papal Bull Dum diversas allows enslavement of pagans

  3. 1400-1600 • 1455: Papal Bull Romanus Pontifex grants a trade monopoly for newly discovered countries in Africa and Asia to the Portuguese. • 1474: JoãoVaz Corte-Real, a Portuguese navigator, claims to have discovered the New Land of the Codfish, an unidentified island of which there is some speculation that it might be Newfoundland, in present-day Canada. • 1482: The Portuguese build the Elmina Castle as the first trading point in Ghana • 1488: Bartolomeu Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope for the Portuguese king. • 1492: "Discovery" of the "New World" and symbolic date of the European Age of Exploration; beginning of the colonization of the Americas and of the Columbian Exchange • 1493: Papal Bull Inter caetera on May 4 • 1494: Treaty of Tordesillas dividing the world outside of Europe in an exclusive duopoly between the Spanish and the Portuguese empires along a north-south meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands (off the west coast of Africa), roughly 46° 36' W. (This boundary was known as the Line of Demarcation.) The lands to the east would belong to Portugal and the lands to the west to Spain.

  4. 1400-1600 • 1498: Vasco da Gama sets foot on Kozhikode, starting the Portuguese presence in India • 1500: Pedro Álvares Cabral sails to Brazil for the Portuguese king • 1511: The Portuguese capture Malacca, in present day Malaysia • 1515: Spanish Leyes de Burgos on January 25 • 1519: The Portuguese capture Ormus, in the Strait of Hormuz, in the Persian Gulf • 1519-1522: Ferdinand Magellan makes his circumnavigation of the Earth but doesn’t survive. • 1542: Spanish LeyesNuevas ("New Laws") • 1542: Creation of the Viceroyalty of Peru • 1550-1552: Valladolid Controversy and publication of A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bishop of Chiapas Bartolomé de las Casas[1]

  5. 1600-1800 • 1600: Queen Elizabeth I of England grants a Royal charter to the English East India Company • 1602: Establishment of the Dutch East India Company • 1607: The first permanent English settlement in North America at Jamestown, Virginia • 1612-1615: The Portuguese captured Gamru Port and a few other places (like Hormuz Island ) in southern coast of Persia. • 1615-1622: Abbas I, king of Persia, battled the Portuguese with the aid of the Royal Navy and the English East India Company and recaptured those lands. • 1619: The first African slaves arrive in Jamestown, VA.

  6. 1600-1800 • 1624: The English set foot in Surat • 1625: Charles I of England receives Oldman, king of the Miskito Nation, who was taken to England by the Earl of Warwick. • 1630: Puritans establish Massachusetts Bay Colony • 1717: Creation of the Viceroyalty of New Granada • 1775-1783: American War of Independence • 1776: Creation of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata • 1776: The thirteen original colonies of the United States declare independence from Britain

  7. 1600-1800 • 1784: Britain passes Pitt's India Act • 1791-1804: Haitian Revolution and abolition of slavery by the French First Republic (reestablished by Napoleon in 1804) • 1795: Britain invades the Cape region of present-day South Africa • 1798: French Invasion of Egypt

  8. 1800-1900 • 1804-1813: Uprising in Serbia against the presence of the Ottoman Empire • 1810-1820s: Spanish American wars of independence • 1810-1821: Mexican War of Independence • 1815-1817: Serbian uprising leading to Serbian autonomy • 1821-1823: Greek War of Independence • 1822: Independence of Brazil proclaimed by Dom Pedro I

  9. 1800-1900 • 1823: British abolish slavery in the West Indies • 1830: Start of the French conquest of Algeria • 1834: Beginning of the Boers' Great Trek • 1839-42: First Opium War and First Anglo-Afghan War • 1846-1848: Mexican-American War, which results in the Mexican Cession • 1848: Spring of Nations in Europe

  10. 1800-1900 • 1848: Decree-law Victor Schoelcher which abolish slavery (permanently) in the French colonial empire • 1853-55: Publication of Gobineau'sAn Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races (one of the first, major formulation of racial theories [2]) • 1854-56: Crimean War • 1854- Convention of Kanagawa after Commodore Perry's expedition to Japan • 1856-60: Second Opium War

  11. 1800-1900 • 1857: Uprising in India against British occupation, which leads to the creation of the British Raj • 1861-1867: French intervention in Mexico ordered by Napoleon III • 1870: Franco-Prussian War • 1870-80s: Conquest of the Desert in Argentina, led by Julio Argentino Roca • 1877-1878: War between Russia and the Ottoman Empire and March 3, 1878 Treaty of San Stefano • 1878: Treaty of Berlin recognising the independence of Romania, Serbia and Montenegro and the autonomy of Bulgaria

  12. 1800-1900 • 1878-1881: Second Anglo-Afghan War • 1879: Anglo-Zulu War • 1880-81: First Boer War • 1881: Indigenous Code in Algeria • 1882: Triple Alliance between Italy and the German-Austrian Dual Alliance

  13. 1800-1900 • 1883: Publication of The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner • 1884-85: Berlin Conference (UK, France, Germany) which sets the right of conquest for the scramble for Africa • 1885: Foundation of the Indian National Congress • 1885: Treaty of Simulambuco (between Portugal and the N'Goyo Kingdom). • 1887: France creates the Indochinese Union

  14. 1800-1900 • 1888: Lei Áurea ("Golden Law") on May 13 in Brazil which abolish slavery • 1889: Foundation of the Republic of Brazil • 1889: British South Africa Company of Cecil Rhodes chartered by the British government to seek treaties and administer territory between the Limpopo River and African Great Lakes. • 1890: Cecil Rhodes sends the Pioneer Column into Mashonaland, starting the process of annexing the territory which became Southern Rhodesia • 1891: The Stairs Expedition to Katanga kills its king, Msiri and obtains treaties from his successors for the territory to become the possession of Leopold II of Belgium

  15. 1800-1900 • 1894: Franco-Russian Alliance, breaking France's isolation by Bismarck • 1895: Treaty of Shimonoseki between Japan and China and Triple Intervention • 1895: Creation of French West Africa (AOF) • 1895-96: First Italo–Ethiopian War • 1896: Anglo-Zanzibar War (on August 27) • 1897: Punitive Expedition led by British Admiral Harry Rawson against Benin, which brings to an end the highly sophisticated West African Kingdom of Benin

  16. 1800-1900 • 1898: Fashoda Incident • 1898: On July 25, 1898 at the outbreak of the Spanish–American War, Puerto Rico was invaded by the United States with a landing at Guánica. Following the outcome of the war, Spain was forced to cede Puerto Rico, along with Cuba, the Philippines, and Guam to the United States under the Treaty of Paris (1898) • 1899: Publication of Rudyard Kipling's The White Man's Burden, as well as Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness[3] • 1899-1902: Second Boer War • 1899-1913: Philippine-American War

  17. 1900-1950 • 1902: Anglo-Japanese Alliance: end of UK's Splendid isolation • 1902: Italy puts a supplement to the Triple Alliance concerning France • 1904: Entente Cordiale between France and the UK • 1904-05: Russo-Japanese War • 1904-07: Herero Genocide • 1905: Partition of Bengal

  18. 1900-1950 • 1905: First Moroccan Crisis after the March 31, 1905 visit of Kaiser Wilhelm to Tangiers • 1906: Algeciras Conference to mediate the Tangier Crisis between France and Germany • 1907: Triple Entente between Russia, France and the UK • 1910: Mexican Revolution and overthrow of PorfirioDíaz's dictatorship • 1910: Creation of French Equatorial Africa (AEF) • 1911: Agadir Crisis

  19. 1900-1950 • 1911: Chinese Revolution • 1912: France establish a full protectorate over Morocco • 1912-1913: Balkan Wars and Italo-Turkish War (Tripolitania and Cyrenaica are transferred from the Ottoman Empire to Italy) • 1914-1918: World War I • 1916: May 16 Sykes-Picot Agreement • 1916-1918: Arab Revolt initiated by Hussein bin Ali and Emir Faisal

  20. 1900-1950 • 1917: October Revolution • 1918: Woodrow Wilson's January 9 speech on the Fourteen Points • 1919: Foundation of the League of Nations at the Paris Peace Conference and creation of the League of Nations Mandates (Iraq and Palestine — including Transjordan — are passed to Great Britain's control, Lebanon and Syria to France; the Cameroons and Togoland are split between the UK and France; Ruanda-Urundi goes to Belgium and Tanganyika to the UK; Nauru and New Guinea to Australia; the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands and the South Pacific Mandate to Japan; Samoa to New Zealand and South West Africa to South Africa) • 1919: Third Anglo-Afghan War • 1919: Non-Cooperation Movement led by Mahatma Gandhi

  21. 1900-1950 • 1920: San Remo conference in April • 1920: Treaty of Sèvres on August 10 between the Triple Entente (UK, France and Russia) and the Ottoman Empire; Mustafa Kemal leads the Turkish War of Independenceleading to the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne • 1922: Creation of the Soviet Union • 1922: Britain receives League of Nations mandate for Palestine • 1923: Proclamation of the Republic of Turkey by Mustafa Kemal on October 29 • 1924: British Empire Exhibition • 1925: Foundation of the Algerian Star of North Africa by MessaliHadj • 1921-1926: Rif War in Morocco, led by Abd el-Krim

  22. 1900-1950 • 1927: May 19 Treaty of Jeddah accords independence to Saudi Arabia led by King Abdul Aziz • 1927-1928: Publication of André Gide's Travels to Congo.[4] • 1931: Paris Colonial Exposition\ • 1931: Gandhi leads Salt March • 1931: South Africa gains independence from Britain • 1932: Independence of Iraq • 1930: Portuguese Colonial Act

  23. 1900-1950 • 1933: Publication of Gilberto Freyre'sCasa-Grande & Senzala ("The Great House and the Slave Quarters" - 1933 [5]) • 1934-1935: Long March by the Chinese Communist Army • 1935: AiméCésaire coins the word Négritude • 1935: Government of India Act • 1936: Franco-Syrian Treaty of Independence (never ratified by France) • 1936-1939: Great Arab Revolt in the British Mandate of Palestine

  24. 1900-1950 • 1935-36: Second Italo-Abyssinian War • 1937-45: Second Sino-Japanese War • 1939-1945: World War II • 1945-1991: Cold War • 1946: Treaty of Manila • 1947: India and Pakistan are independent of Great Britain • 1948: First apartheid legislation in South Africa • 1948: Partition of Palestine and First Arab-Israeli War

  25. 1950-2000 • 1951-1980: European decolonization of Africa • 1952: King Farouk is overthrown in Egypt • 1956: Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal • 1956-1966: Decolonization of British African colonies • 1957: Ghana is first independent African nation • 1958: United Arab Republic is formed • 1960: Congo is granted independence from Belgium • 1962: Algeria gains independence from France • 1963: Organization for African Unity is formed • 1964: The Palestine Liberation Organization is formed.

  26. 1950-2000 • 1964: Nelson Mandela sentenced to life in prison • 1967: The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded by Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines to encourage cooperation and economic prosperity. • 1980: Canada gains full independence from the British parliament with the Canada Act. • 1990: Mandela is released after 26 years in prison • 1991: End of Soviet Union • 1993: Eritrea, a former Italian colony declares independence and is subsequently recognized. • 1994: Mandela becomes President of South Africa • 1997: The British dependent territory of Hong Kong is given to People's Republic of China.

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